GENERAL TABLE OF SPECIES. 



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SPECIES NATIVE TO THE OLD WORLD. 

 Cultivated jok the Subteeeanean Paets. 



Name and duration. 



Badish — RapKanus sativus (1). 

 Horse-Badish — Cochlearia Armora- 



cia, Tf. 

 Tarnip — Brassica Rapa (2). 

 Eape — Brassica Napus (2). 

 Canot — Dauous Carota (2). 



Parsnip— Pastinaca eativa (2). 

 TabeiooB ChervU — Chseropbyllum 



bnlbosum (2). 

 Skirret— Sium Sisarnm, y. 



Madder — Rabia tinctomm, f 



Salsify — Tragopogon porrif oliutn (2) . 

 Scoizonera — Scorzonera hiapanioa. 



Bampion — Campannla Rapauciilus 



(2)- 



I Vegetable, 

 Root. 

 Garlic — Allium sativum, f. 



Onion — ^Allium Oepa (2) . 

 Welsh Onion — Allium fistulosum, -^. 

 Shallot — ^Allium asoalonicum, '^. 

 Bocamhole — ^Allium Soorodoprasum 

 Chives — Allium Sohsenoprasum, Tf. 



Taro— Colocasia antiquoram, f. 



Date. 



B. 

 C. 



A. 



A. 

 B. 



C. 

 C. 



C. 



B. 



C.(?) 

 C. 



0. 



B. 



B. 

 B. 



A. 



C. 

 C. 

 C. 



C.(?) 



B. 



Origin. 



Temperate Asia.' 



Eastern temperate Europe. 



Europe, western Siberia (?) . 

 Europe, western Siberia (?). 

 Europe, western temperate 



Asia (?). 

 Centraland sonthem Europe. 

 Central Europe, Caucasus. 



Altaic Siberia, northern 



Persia. 

 Western temperate Asia, 



south-east of Europe. 

 South-east of Europe, Algeria . 

 South-west of Europe, south 



of the Caucasus. 

 Temperate and southern 



Europe. 

 Canaries, Mediterranean 



basin, western temperate 



Asia. 

 A result of cultivation. 

 Desert of the Kirghis, in 



western temperate Asia. 

 Persia, Afghanistan, Belu- 



chistan, Palestine (?). 

 Siberia (from the land of 



the Eirghis to Baikal) . 

 Modiiication of A. cepa (?), 



unknown wild. 

 Temperate Europe. 



Temperate and northern 

 Europe, Siberia, Khams- 

 chatka, North America 

 (Lake Huron). 



India, Malay Archipelago, 

 Polynesia. 



' Dr. Bretschneider writes to me from Pekin, Deo. 22, 1882, that 

 the species is mentioned in the Byd, a work of the year 1100 B.C. I do 

 not know if we must suppose the original habitat to be China or 

 western Asia. 



